A call out during #EQW2024 for chairs/leaders of health and care BME/BAME staff networks to join our BME Leadership Network of Network Leaders.

✅ meet virtually
✅ share good practice
✅ discuss challenges
✅ support each other

#BlackInclusionWeek bit.ly/3snybZv

The BME Leadership Network 'Shattered Hopes' report is an important insight into the experience of senior health leaders in the #NHS .

Access it here 👇

#EQW2024 #BlackInclusionWeek

Sign up to BME Leadership Network #antiracism bulletin 👇

#EQW2024 #BlackInclusionWeek

#WRES data shows that only 39% of #NHS staff from a black background believe their trust provides equal opportunities for career progression or promotion.

Read the Workforce Race Equality Standard 2023 report to learn more. #EQW2024 #BlackInclusionWeek bit.ly/3DPOkII

Read BME Leadership Network #AntiRacism report and access excellent good practice case studies 👇

Find out more about BME Leadership Network 👇

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MFT_EDI team will be at North Manchester General Hospital(NMGH), Gallery Restaurant Corridor today, 15th May, from 11 am to 2 pm.
Come and Have Your Say!
North Manchester General Hospital
MFT NHS
#eqw2024
Diversity & Inclusion
NHS Confederation

🌍 It's day 3 of #EQW2024 and also #BlackInclusionWeek !

Today our focus is #AntiRacism . Follow BME Leadership Network who will be posting throughout the day on their work to tackle racism.

Make sure you visit our EQW2024 page to catch up/access our resources bit.ly/4agxoKZ

#EQW2024 It’s essential that leaders identify, and are held accountable for, how they implement transformational change to achieve racial equity in the workplace - in a way that ultimately leads to equitable opportunities for all.
Via The Lancet :

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Kulvinder Hira London Ambulance Service on how to drive improvement in EDI:
✅Board engagement
✅Support, time and money to our staff networks
✅Used data to hold trusts to account and drive improvement
✅Change the mindsets of your staff to get good patient outcomes

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Next up we have Graham Martin from THIS Institute talking about the importance of collaboration:
✅Can be responsive and dynamic
✅Can allow knowledge sharing
✅Can be creative

But it can be fragile, vulnerable and requires time.

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We are halfway through our Fostering excellence in tackling inequality conference! 🚀

Check out what one of our delegates has learned from the morning so far 👇

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'3 words: Education, allyship and accountability'

Sophie Lecky Sussex Community NHS succinctly summarises her takeaways during our EDI Lead feedback session.

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The conversation in the room is buzzing as our delegates tackle:
✅Delivering the EDI improvement plan
✅How to make sustainable and impactful change
✅The role of ICBs and the wider system
✅Achieving better community health outcomes
✅Career pathways

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Organisations can begin to overcome their barriers in tackling health inequalities with:
✅Leadership
✅Governance
✅Relationships within the ICS and communities.
✅National health and care policy
Ruth Lowe NHS Confederation

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Carol Hill NHS Confederation explains what underpins the 5 step model to tackle inequalities
✅Co-production: work closely and consistently with local communities
✅Enable your management to succeed
✅Fund the community to own it
✅Clinically led

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Our audience pose challenging questions on the rate of change to Dr Habib Naqvi MBE and deepapnair 💙

Habib: 'the first step to any change is to recognise there is an issue. Unless we acknowledge that racism exists and has a detrimental impact, we cannot step forward'

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'It's important to focus on why the NHS was established - it a social contract between people'

'Diversity is not always precursor to inclusion, inclusion improves outcomes for our patients'

Dr Habib Naqvi MBE from NHS Race & Health Observatory telling us to focus on the data and #OurNHSpeople

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It has been nearly a year since the EDI Improvement plan was published and deepapnair 💙 and work is already being done in regions towards the high impact actions.

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The EDI improvement plan supports organisational change deepapnair 💙
✅Tackle EDI for your SLT then it cascades down
✅Organisations can publish and tackle their ethnicity, gender and disability pay gaps
✅Tackle inequalities for your workforce and population

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